Summary and creative answers to Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc.
BACKGROUND Toyota invested up to 800 million dollars in Kentucky and made Toyota into a multinational corporate company. But Toyota very concerned about the reputation of high quality at low cost. Toyota tried to transplant its unique production system to Bluegrass Country effectively. In this way Toyota could increase
3.2. PM(Preventive Maintenance)
3.2.1. What is the PM?
"Preventive Maintenance is a scheduled program of regular inspection, adjustments, lubrication, or replacement of warm or failing parts in order to maintain an asset's function, and efficiency (Ryan Cruzan, 2009)
Preventive Maintenance is the task that we perform to keep buildings in good condition. So Preventive Maintenance includes task
ADVANTAGE
Cost reduction
- price competitiveness
Local production
-Improve Local Responsiveness
Decrease
foreign-exchange loss
Why?
- Excessive
cost reduction
- Side effects of
expanding overseas
production bases
Case study : Nokia
In 2007, recalled 46,000,000 cell phone battery that supply from Matsushita
In 2009, recalled 14,000,000 cell phone charger that
3. PL(제품책임) 문제 최근 상황
제품의 안전 문제는 주로 소비자나 사용자의 관심 문제였지만 이제는 제품의 생산자와 판매자에게도 매우 중요한 문제가 되었다. 예컨대 1975년에 미식축구경기를 하다가 다쳐서 불구가 된 미국의 한 고등학교 선수가 헬멧 제조업자를 상대로 소송을 제기하여 마이애
2) Kwak’s victory
In the election which took place on June 2nd of 2010, the only liberal candidate, Kwak No-hyun won 34.34 percent of the votes, defeating conservative Lee Won-hee by only 1.12 percent. Kwak No Hyun was a presidential advisor under the late President Roh Moo Hyun, a professor at Korea National Open University and the former secretary-general of the National Human Rights Commiss